THE PRACTICE OF MIND-CONTROL

Restraining them all, he should sit with his mind composed and bent on Me. He whose senses are mastered has his understanding firmly fixed.

11-61

When a man allows his mind to muse on the objects of sense-enjoyments, an attraction for them is created. Attraction develops into craving, and from craving follow causes for anger.

11-62

Anger produces delusion.  Delusion confuses the memory and understanding of things; from this confusion of understanding follows the disintegration of the power of discrimination; with discrimination gone, the man perishes.

11-63

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